Full Service Accelerator Management

Get a running head start on launching a new accelerator by partnering with Fluent to design, prep, and manage your accelerator program from start to finish. You provide the capital and workspace, we provide everything else.

Program strategy and design

Marketing, branding, messaging

Recruitment and cohort selection process

Mentor recruitment, training, management

Founder coaching & workshop modules

Demo Day planning

Ongoing portfolio management

And all of the little logistical details!

Workshops & Founder Coaching

We offer a comprehensive accelerator curriculum that pulls from Design Thinking, Lean Startup Methodology, and Agile to provide real, tactical founder training. Our curriculum & coaching can complement existing accelerator programming or serve as the primary program. We also offer individual workshops to cover topics for which you may not have a local mentor.

Workshops:

Lean Startup & Design Thinking

Customer Discovery Interviews 101

Lean Experiment Design

Startup Etiquette

Solution Testing

Negotiation Skills for Sales

Customer Acquisition Testing

Pricing & Growth Modeling

Back of the Napkin Financial Modeling

Lean Financial Modeling

Pitch Training and Coaching

Fractional Program Management

Sometimes, you just need a little help. Whether you need short-term assistance with recruiting teams for your application cycle, wrangling mentors or speakers for your program, or planning Demo Day, you need someone who can jump right in and knows what to do. We’re here to help!

Program Strategy and design

Marketing management

Cohort selection process

Program scheduling

Logistics during the program

Community management

Communication management

Demo Day planning

Off-season portfolio management

– Let’s chat about how we can help your program –

One of my founders at Velocity Accelerator joked this week that we need t-shirts for our cohort that say “Build the Machine.” I say it so often, in my workshops and coaching sessions, that it has become the mantra of this cohort. I say it so often, because it’s the...

But if your ecosystem is less than 10 years old, your startup landscape probably consists of a lot of very, very, very early stage companies. These companies are too early to have employees. They’re legitimately too early for funding. So how do we define and measure their progress?

Once a founder is out on the road pitching their business to investors, they often face the harsh reality that the investors are “grading” them based on a set of metrics, milestones, and indicators that help the investor determine if the startup is investable, if it’s a good bet. Meanwhile, the founder has already gone all in — investing all of their time, energy, creativity, and money into their dream.

The world is moving and changing incredibly fast. Someday, we’ll have as many accelerators in the world as there are currently colleges and universities. As we evolve the accelerator model, I believe this is how we’ll train people to create value in an uncertain and ever-changing world. In order to reach that point, we need to think critically about what currently works and doesn’t about the accelerator model. And then we need to ambitiously embrace experimentation and continuous improvement.

One of the things I love most about working in the startup space is the expectation to always level up and to find the next harder challenge after gaining some mastery at the current level. Having been a founder in an accelerator first, building a startup over the past six years, and then transitioning to managing an accelerator for the past two years, I have a unique point of view on the design and implementation of accelerators.

I help first-time founders build startups like serial entrepreneurs. I do this by designing and running startup accelerator programs, coaching founders, and consulting with innovative organizations around the US.

After being a nomad for forever (I've moved over 25 times!), I recently settled down in Denver and love it. I hope I never get tired of seeing the mountains off in the distance.